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Friday, 4 January 2013

An Italian toast

On
29 December 2012 Professor Maddalena De Leofrom Italy with BS members Caterina Lerro and Elisa
Fierro met in Naples to mark and enjoy a very special day: the two hundredth anniversary of Maria and Patrick Brontë’s wedding.

While celebrations of the
event were taking place at midday at Haworth in the Brontë Parsonage Museum, at
about the same hour the three Italian scholars raised a toast to the Brontë
sisters’ parents. During the meeting
Professor De Leo also read aloud some moving extracts from the novel about
Maria’s life Removing the shroud of mystery
originally written by her in Italian and recently published in English to mark
the important event.

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